Chase A. Thompson
Writer, Pastor, Podcaster
Vintage Christmas Reflections #2 Why did Jesus Come in the Flesh? To Teach by His Words AND Actions! (Featuring: John Chrysostom)
John Chrysostom (349 A.D. - 407 A.D.) may well have been one of the most profound preachers and teachers that the church has ever had. His very name means golden-mouthed, and is an indication of his ability to speak with power and passion. Chrysostom started out his...
Vintage Christmas Reflections #1: George Müller and Overcoming Christmas Depression.
For the month of December, and in honor of the birth of Jesus (which may or may not have happened in December - post coming soon,) I plan on writing several shorter articles containing meditations and reflections on Christmas by spiritual giants from past years. Over...
Quick Hits: How Long Were Sermons in the 1800s??
I found the below anecdote from the autobiography of George Muller to be quite interesting. He recounts the first time he ever preached, and how he had no idea how to prepare a sermon, so he borrowed another preacher's sermon and MEMORIZED the whole thing. How long...
Ten Exceptionally Good Thanksgiving Quotes (John Piper, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther, etc)
In celebration of Thanksgiving Day, here are some great quotes and thoughts from a a variety of great writers. Happy Thanksgiving to you! "Do you think, O Christian, that you can measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought you—justification,...
A Life Well Written: Unheralded Quotes of C.S. Lewis on Writing for the 53rd Anniversary of His Death.
53 years ago today (November 1963), the world lost United States President John F. Kennedy and two Oxford trained writers: Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World) and Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis. Internet pundits, chiefly myself, have speculated that this day is the...
LeBron James and The Tyranny of Offense, A.K.A., The Boy Who Cried Wolf Syndrome (Racial Harmony, part 3)
Allow me to start off with a provoking statement, and then walk it back a little bit later: LeBron James was a whiny millennial this week that actually deepened racial divides with his rebuke of Phil Jackson, and probably left a lot of people clueless about how to...
Quickhits: How Parenting Teens and Children are Different (Mark. L. Ward)
Here's some great parenting insight from Logos expert Mark L. Ward, written as an aside during an extended article discussing difficult to interpret Bible passages. Below, Dr. Ward argues that when parenting teenagers, it is rarely a good idea to give them orders with...
The Biblical Cures for Busyness: Part One: Prune the Vine. (The Dangers of Busyness, part 4)
I believe that busyness is a plague in 2016 - most of us are really quite busy, overly busy, but we are not accomplishing very much. Note here the challenge of Jesus to not strive after that which the world strives after: "Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t...
Seven Principles on Rest from the Bible – The Dangers of Being Too Busy, part 3.
7 Principles on Rest from the Scriptures: God Himself Rested: “2 By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested...